Urban & Community

Tree City USA - Awards Program

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The Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree City USA program is celebrating its 40th Anniversary

Tree City USA was designed in 1976 to encourage better care of the nation’s community forests by awarding recognition to communities that meet forest basic standards of a good tree program. More then 3,400 cities and towns in all 50 states take great pride in being recognized as Tree City USA communities. In fact, 42 communities were recognized in the inaugural year and of those, 16 are celebrating 40 years of participation this year. In Maryland, the two longest participating towns are the City of Frederick with 36 years and Chestertown with 35 years.